This difficulty is entirely removed by the accurate copies of the Septuagint, which places the death of Methuselah _six_ years before the flood. Again, by the Hebrew text Lamech is represented as having died five years before that catastrophe, and consequently before Methuselah, being the only instance in the generations of the righteous from Adam to Noah, in which the son paid the debt of nature before the father. But this anomaly evidently arises from the alteration which was made in the Hebrew _Antepaidogonian_ age of Lamech, by the abstraction of _six_ years, the difference between it and that of the Septuagint; for, if the original number had been retained as in the case of Methuselah, Lamech would then have been represented as surviving the deluge by _one year_! According to the present text of the Septuagint, Lamech is indeed represented as having died _twenty-nine_ years before his father; but if his _Hebrew Postpaidogonian_ age be considered as the correct one, his death would then have taken place _five_ years before the flood, and _one year_ after that of his father; thus, the natural anomaly would be removed, and the difference between the years of his _whole life_, in the Hebrew and the Septuagint, reduced from _thirty_ years to _six_, the amount of alteration in his _Hebrew Antepaidogonian_ age. The whole question is ably and fully discussed in Mr. Cuninghame’s “Fulness of the Times,” pp. 138, 139, and his “Septuagint and Hebrew Chronologies tried,” pp. 36–45, on the supposition that Lamech’s _Postpaidogonian_ age and _whole life_, as given in the Septuagint, are strictly correct; but his reasoning is of so lengthened and recondite a nature that we must refer our readers to the works themselves for complete satisfaction on the subject.[4]